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Foxes Guarding the Henhouse
- by Paul & Phillip D. Collins ©, June 25th, 2007
Do you still think that the governments of the world are conducting
a sincere "war on terror"? If so, please consider the 2005
investigation of 200 Italian police who were running a "parallel
anti-terror force" (Philips). Using the 2004 Madrid bombing as a
pretext, Gaetano Saya and Riccardo Sindoca set up the Department
for Anti-terrorist Strategic Studies (DSSA) ("Italy probes
'parallel police,'"). According to those involved in the
investigation of the DSSA, the group used official police badges
and official police equipment while carrying out very unofficial
investigations. The group was also believed to have been using
Interior Ministry's database in its own operations. The worst
accusation concerning the DSSA came from phone intercepts obtained
by investigators (Philips). According to these wiretaps, DSSA
members were planning to kidnap Red Brigades activist Cesare
Battisti. One magistrate commented on this revelation: "We were
seeing the genesis of something similar to the death squads in
Argentina".
Probably the most disturbing revelation to come out of the
investigation of the DSSA was the fact that Gaetano Saya and
Riccardo Sindoca were identified as former members of Gladio
("Italy probes 'parallel police',"). What was Gladio? Gladio was a
clandestine paramilitary network that came into existence in the
1950s (Vulliamy). It was part of a much larger network of guerrilla
fighters known as "Stay Behind" ("Gelli arrest is another chapter
in sordid Vatican Bank scandal,"). The network had been proposed by
CIA director Allen Dulles and fell under the authority of Supreme
Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE). This network included a
very sordid cast of characters, many of which were Nazis.
Christopher Lee provides an example:
One network included at least two former Nazi SS members -- Staff
Sgt. Heinrich Hoffman and Lt. Col. Hans Rues -- and one was run by
Lt. Col. Walter Kopp, a former German army officer referred to by
the CIA as an "unreconstructed Nazi." The network was disbanded in
1953 amid political concerns that some members' neo-Nazi sympathies
would be exposed in the West German press.
The most sinister character tied to this network was Licio Gelli,
head of the infamous P2 Freemasonic Lodge ("Gelli's arrest is
another chapter in sordid Vatican Bank scandal,"). Gelli was one of
the coordinators of Gladio. P2, Italian secret service and Gladio
were all inextricably linked. Vulliamy elaborates:
Links between Gladio, Italian secret service bosses and the
notorious P2 masonic lodge are manifold. The chiefs of all three
secret services - Generals Santovito (SISMI), Grassini (SISDE) and
Cellosi (CESSIS) - were members of the lodge. In the year that
Andreotti denied Gladio's existence, the P2 treasurer, General Siro
Rosetti, gave a generous account of "a secret security structure
made up of civilians, parallel to the armed forces".
For many years, P2 operated as a shadow government in Italy. Its
membership roles "included over a thousand leading political,
financial and government figures" ("Gelli arrest is another chapter
in sordid Vatican Bank scandal,"). Secret members of the lodge
included no less than forty-eight parliament members and Cabinet
members. Like any good shadow government, P2 required its own
private army. Gladio was that private army, providing Gelli and his
cohorts with front line troops and foot soldiers.
Gelli's organization received that help and support of the American
power elite. In 1974, Gelli had a secret meeting with Nixon's Chief
of Staff, Alexander Haig. Haig promised Gelli that P2 and the
network would continue receiving funds. Gelli would receive the
money he required to realize his vision for Italy. What exactly was
Gelli's vision? If Gelli's past associations are any indication,
then the Italy that he aspired to create was anything but
democratic. Gelli "had been active in the fascist Black Shirts
Battalion in the Spanish civil war". He had also been a key liaison
officer to the elite SS Division's Hermann Goring.
Ostensibly, Gladio was supposed to be a bulwark against a Warsaw
Pact invading army (Vulliamy). However, Gladio's real mission was
manipulation of social change. To initiate this change, Gladio
employed the darkest of all social engineering tools: terrorism. In
the 1970s, Gladio engaged in what was known as the "Strategy of
Tension," which reporter Ed Vulliamy characterizes as "violent and
usually fascist-inspired outrages designed to justify increased
state power". Several terrorist acts have been attributed to
Gladio. The investigations into the 1972 car bombing in Peteano
that killed three policemen pointed to Gladio as the culprit.
Vincenzo Vinciguerra, a member of the fascist group Avanguardia
Nazionale who is serving a life sentence for his role in the
Peteano bombing, has also implicated Gladio in the 1980 Bologna
station bomb that resulted in 82 deaths.
Gladio may have even somehow been involved in the assassination of
Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro. The official story has long been
that Moro was assassinated by Marxist revolutionaries of the Red
Brigades. However, there were other powers that viewed Moro as a
threat. Willan elaborates:
Both Moscow and Washington opposed Moro's policy as dangerously
destabilizing for the postwar European order which the great powers
sanction at the Yalta conference in 1945. Suspicion continues to
this day that the CIA or KGB, possibly both, may have played a role
in his violent removal from the political scene. At the very least,
they did nothing to secure his release.
Red Brigades' account held that Moro's final prison was on the
outskirts of Rome. However, the original autopsy report contradicts
this claim, indicating that that Moro's final prison was in the
Rome Ghetto, possibly a clothing store. Textile filaments found on
Moro's clothing and on the mudguards of Renault 4 in which his body
was found support the contention that his last journey was not a
long one, only a few miles at slow speed.
Moro may have even warned about Gladio's subversive activities in
Italy. In 1990, a group of judges examined letters uncovered in
Milan (Vulliamy). In these letters, Moro expressed a fear that "a
shadow organization, alongside 'other secret services of the
West ... might be implicated in the destabilization of our
country'". Was Moro angering Gladio's masters among the power
elite? On November 10, 1982, Moro's close associate, Gorrado
Guerzoni, testified in open court that Henry Kissinger had
threatened the Italian Prime Minister (Coleman 23-4).
DSSA's connection to Gladio is very significant. The fact that
members of a state-sponsored terrorist group could reverse roles
and form an "anti-terror force" presents us with a disturbing
reality. That reality is that, when it comes to the "war on
terror," the foxes are guarding the henhouse.
Sources Cited
Coleman, Dr. John. The Conspirator's Hierarchy: The Committee of
300. Nevada: Joseph Publishing, 1994.
"GELLI ARREST IS ANOTHER CHAPTER IN SORDID VATICAN BANK SCANDAL."
American Atheists 16 September 1998
"Italy probes 'parallel police.'" BBC 1 July 2005
Lee, Christopher. "CIA Ties With Ex-Nazis Shown." Washington Post 7
June 2006
Philips, John. "Up to 200 Italian police 'ran parallel anti-terror
force.'" The Independent 5 July 2005
Vulliamy, Ed. "Secret agents, freemasons, fascists... and a top-
level campaign of political 'destabilisation.'" Guardian 5 December
1990
About the Authors
Phillip D. Collins acted as the editor for The Hidden Face of
Terrorism. He co-authored the book The Ascendancy of the Scientific
Dictatorship, which is available at www.amazon.com. It is also
available as an E-book at www.4acloserlook.com. Phillip has also
written articles for Paranoia Magazine,MKzine, News With Views,
B.I.P.E.D.: The Official Website of Darwinian Dissent and
Conspiracy Archive. He has also been interviewed on several radio
programs, including A Closer Look, Peering Into Darkness, From the
Grassy Knoll, Frankly Speaking, the ByteShow, and Sphinx Radio.
In 1999, Phillip earned an Associate degree of Arts and Science. In
2006, he earned a bachelor's degree with a major in communication
studies and liberal studies along with a minor in philosophy.
During the course of his seven-year college career, Phillip has
studied philosophy, religion, political science, semiotics,
journalism, theatre, and classic literature. He recently completed
a collection of short stories, poetry, and prose entitled Expansive
Thoughts. Readers can learn more about it at
www.expansivethoughts.com.
Paul D. Collins has studied suppressed history and the shadowy
undercurrents of world political dynamics for roughly eleven years.
In 1999, he earned his Associate of Arts and Science degree. In
2006, he completed his bachelor's degree with a major in liberal
studies and a minor political science. Paul has authored another
book entitled The Hidden Face of Terrorism: The Dark Side of Social
Engineering, From Antiquity to September 11. Published in November
2002, the book is available online from www.1stbooks.com,
barnesandnoble.com, and also amazon.com. It can be purchased as an
e-book (ISBN 1-4033-6798-1) or in paperback format (ISBN
1-4033-6799-X). Paul also co-authored The Ascendancy of the
Scientific Dictatorship.
A comprehensive collection of Collins articles can be found at:
conspiracyarchive.com/Commentary/Collins.php.
http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Commentary/P2_Gladio.htm
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